ATTORNEYS ASK
RELEASE OF 34 5 CENTS
NEGRO COMMUNITY SHOT UP; STATE
TROOPS WENT TO TOWN, SAYS DAILY VOLUME U,=
Nub ill, Tenn.., March 6- dertaker, and Sol Blair, a bar­Writs
01 habeas rorpus seeking ber, who were ~ted and
the release of 34 persons held in charged a t first ith attempted
)ail in ronnec:tion with the r iot- murder. The two men with
ing at Columbia, Tenn., Feb. Weaver and Donald Jones, A­%
6, wert' filed by Maurice Weav- ACP assistant field secretary,
N, NAACP attorney, on March conferred here with z.. Alexan-
2. The writs were prepared by der Looby, member 01 the NA­Weaver
and z.. Alexander Looby, ACP national legal ronurut~.
of this city, who is a member of Def ..... FWld Sought
the NAACP national legal com- "This is no ordinary case," __ _
mittee. White said. wA firsthand look at
Walter White, AACP Secre- the situation rev als even more T tary who flew here from New outrageous handling than was
York, stated that although the lDdicated in newspaper stories
Columbia situation is judged I The. kilhng of two pnsoners in
to be tense enough for the Slate the Jail and the woundlDg of an-
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42 egro prisoners who had been munity of Columbia are up
h~d in the Da,·HUon County jail agalDSt. Unless they receive out­here,
.... ere moved back to Col- side aid. unless the rountry is
umbia at .. p.m. March 1. This aroused to condemn the kind of
movement took place after two thmg t .... at took place m Colum­Negroes
h~d been killed in the bin, Negro ~ltlZ"ns of small com­jill
by state troopers 'rhllniday I munitJes throughout the n~ti.on
afternoon. February 28. will be helpless.
InvestigatJon by the NAACP "The AACP intends to give
~to ~~ ~:~g h:e, C:a'r~b::~ I ~~~~~:!:~sl~~':t!:~:::' ::;
February 26 reveals that there because of the number involved
was a real threat of lynching, and the broad issues, the fight
that a mob actually called at the will be an expensive one. We apo
jail seeking a colored woman peal for contributions to the de­and
h.,r son, and that the shoot- fense of the Columbia, Tenn"
ing in which ten persons were VIctims from individuals and or-o
RESULT OF POLL
BY COMMITTEE
MRS. MARY M{LEOD BETHUNE MAKES
ANNOUNCEMENT AND HAILS CHOICE
wounded resulted from the fear gaDizations throughout the Washington, D. C., March r.- tribution to the progress of
of Negroes that a Iynchmg party country. Money should be sent Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune an-I Americ~ .:md the world."
was to be staged. to the NAACP Legal Defense nounc the sel..:tion of t"'eh·e The Honorees are: Moljor
An attorney, Maurice Weaver, and Edu"3tIonal Fund, Inc.,' 20 women of the year as a result of I Cha: lty Adams. Judge Jane BoI-white,
a returned serviceman West 40th Street, New York 18,1 a poll by an awards committee, m, Congresswoman Helen Ga-now
practicing in Chattanooga, New York." I Bishop I which CO.nsidered the COntribU-j hugan Douglas, Mrs. Virpllla
secured the rele",:" on hond of Real Lynching Threat Bishop Hamlett of Kansas Clty, l tlOns of over sixty women for Durr, Mrs. J. Borden Harriman,
.A. J . Morton. leading Negro un- ,Continued on page 4) 'Kansas, del,,·ered the opening this signilicant recognition. Mrs. MISS Lois M. Jones, Dr. Cather-
_ _ ~ j ~:iI, of i~ .~n:,~~o~: ~ !,:.,:"e.,~a:~d ....~ .';y~o~~b'~~. ~:y~lta\~ A;~~ :~l- CITIZENS NAME I~=':~:; ~~t .~~~ E~~~: =~~~"at~:n:lU~~:!r \7: ~:!;e !~'::era;;; ~;~ ~a
District which IS composed of I gro Wom n pays tribute to the Sprmger. Parchment scrolls will
annual C(Jruerences m Kansas I aehie\·ements, unseUish devotion be prl!:'cnted to these women al YMCA COMMITTEE ;o~isi=U~~o=t:~~ ~: ~~p~c~U~~lC '::::d~~ ~~~~: :tP~!~~c;t~:~~~~ 1;~8~::~
managing editor of the Kansas sibility for hum:ul progress and IA\.enu" N W
State Record of Newton Kan- Iweuare which th~ .... -omen ex- The ~""'~rd~ Committee ron-sas,
as a candidate for the an-I emplify. These women repre- sisted of Miss Dornthy Bellanca,
nual N.A.A.C.P. Spingarn medal, I SeD.ting as they d~ tbe. fields of Miss LIllian Smith, Mrs. Thom-
. ~he ~ird public . meeting of I ~ by 1. Willis Cole, chairman. for his accomplishments as a Turnkey Bob Sanders, center, foreground, is sh.own searching 42 Columbi4 1'I~g "OPs Ul"'" their )urlS!,rud~ce, eo.u~auon,. ~ asina Johnson. Mrs. Katherine
~~~~.:~:=t ~asth:ei~e;~ I: e ;~~:;::1a~~:ru~:!~ ::. race and religious leader. commitment in the Dav~dson. County J ail, Nashv!ll". ~d ~~.ders,JC~ ~~~y ~. srru~ I ~~~~~ ~t~I~~;, ::;~:~ Shryver, Mrs. B. Beatrix Scott,
the Chestnut Street U.S .O. Club, eluding that of a committee of back center. checks the IdentIty .of the men. At nght. ourt 0 lcer . . r lD es a n I tional relations, have e-ch in her Mrs. Ann ArnDld Hedgeman, Dr.
;E;f~~; [~~:~.:~~IMI~~~~E~:A~:RYSHIP A::~N~~-:N'~ :o~I':u:I~;aN;:~c;:;I~E~~enN· arEriVewd 'OC ~. '~"~~'FEoAmXC~:E"sm~R:AI~cE'E~,~s~sOyrueEd ~N·w;,.A~;A·d:~c\:~p'~:·Ta c~noS: ·::~A:nanTc~n:T~~h~O:;'N~=
Street Branch Y.M.C.A. The This spirited and interesting I . • • I I
~~~~I~~~~:£~~:~:~!l;;~ ~~.;I:~~;:~!'F~ 7~::~Z ~;~:~~:~a£:E~:~I~l ARMY POLICY . -- POLICE CON UCT en, elected at the first public WIUIam S. Coleman Hou~ ical SerDlDary last Wednesday, Austm, Texas, March 6-The
meet111J! as a temporary group to I Baker. W. E. Johnso;" W. W. Dr. RoLilld SmIth. edItor of the II 5 . te O.f T"xas faces a test ca~e
carry forward the proposed "Y" &ckett, Eugene Clayton, W. C. Georg13 Bap~t. and a leadct on t~e quc5uon OfnW~~th~r It 15,
plan and tv take such steps, as Buforn. Da"d W. Barnett. S .of his denommallon. said that. ' pro.\ IJmg adeq.uat_ hloher edU-1
not only mtght guarantce the I Leroy Jason. Jesse H. La'H- ·'there IS danger that the leader- co I nal faclhlles for N~groes, .. ~ _ . • . o J H W lis, C .hip ~mong '"gr"". Jr. .. } pass' WAR DEPARTMENT'S PLAN TRrND leq.~IUlthr'S"Df!cr -dwhlkS. One of the. mc,t mt.r(' ;lm .. cgro:·op a.lempt d to sho\e
ree,t..bh. hmpnt of the Y ~C.A., ~~~~k. ~r.·J A. ~a. ~te~ fr.om their nUlII-ters to me pro-, 1 . t I The Lr:i\·er~ity. of Tex::s re- m nthly "' etm •• d th~ Lot,,;;- h r ;-"'1 '" anJ ent" ... the _ r;
but aho Its permancnc) The La . C G F ~, se fesoID",,;U r. as law _ ie~ce and I J c the  tppllcahon cC a Negro VIlle Branch A.A.C.P, was ! lhat wl,en sht: t Id hun Clat he
tl·~.ol t of tile P,o'·l5iona! Com- Orto~,nR"'."D. J.;~~~t~~~~ educ:.t1Cn.~ ··nl'.: is urgentj TOIIIARO ELIMINATING SEGREGATIO I Ikn.~n Marion S\H:att Of,Hous- h id lend y nig,,~ ".t ~JC Y .. W:  -ou:r1 o':':n:"r her hOm:!n with-
Inlttee was rr.;.de by 1.1r. Stout 1;.1 YZLoek. J. W. Hackett =d 1. ne -d I r trn n d rr.inistcrs 1111 f . "1 (r,n. for ac:m."sswn to .. 1.5 I~w IC. A, .1\",.n.; th , - ~dal un u t a ~::.c_h. """.:T:t:t I", told
and of the memixrship corrurut- Wilhs Col . NlglO   Iurc .... es. Fe\\"(r than 100 . 1: ; 1, pendm;: ~n Optn"J:  from porumt rrklttHs pr.s n: .-d to the ICo •.. I .. ue 0 .• P g 4)
of the 4.000 .; gro Bapt;·t mIJllS- W ·hinJ t r.. larch C - The ·"grO£s tn the. Ant:y '1o(1e • _n-I.i·tomey General GIll . '1" s.:llcr~ Execu::ve COnllr.lttee '·a, that
t .;.nGco. m !l:l\"eh::d college a cption "f new War Depart- ~idly appraisN t,y" b,,:.r~ «( I(,n thequrstlon of ··"h,th ·r r id the  -ll ged treatment of a wn!J rDIT R
LOUISVILLE 's rORMER M YOR t"'II:'rg .l ut h" added, "24 Neg- ment policy as nnDunc".;! .1un- f"ur gcndal:.thrce I'f WJ!om _rc not a ,:-.s"n of ""gru .mcc t y color~ I ,"Dr,'ID. ~I~. nu~h Alkn U fI ~ t 0 r '" E.1ptist (-OllereS.tn th· South d~y, prvn.i., sWider opport.rnl-- Southerner '. The W~I D· .. rt- .,a.erw":,,. qU.~lIfle l, lT1ny !crnlly I d Beecher Tcrrac~. b~ Jessie I
PROMISES HOU ING EQU jLITY ior .. atlackmg the problem. It!csforsern("Canda,jvan~cm nt ment ~doptl.J all "r he" ('on- be ndmltted. Taylor, egro poll~m;;n. The WIN" AWARD
" Dr. Smith also said that, "few- In th" Army for American !~e- cl~lons "'.'d reco:nmend,Hions. Dr. PaUltcr, ad;ng peesident matte~ was 01  "" by irs. I ol
('r thlill 6,000,000 of the 14,000,00\1 groes. It is regarded as reachlDg HIgh OHiCials regard the new DC tho? university. noted in hIS Horten Young. a mem~r of __
Wash· gt 0 C M hiT . t h sh f bid • -~gr.,.. - lD America are church I a new peak in liberating to the plan as hittlDg a trend toward Ile:tcr asking the opinion that "It the commlt~_ :.r.d the wife f Washmgton D. C. March 1_
Wilson I~y:i. n:.tI~al a~USlD-;; IDg °n::r~lse W o;::ger~ Ul ~ members and of those alliliated race. . I eliminating segregation. has .nev.er been th,,: policy of this Dr. C .• 1. Young ..... ho treated Mrs. Almena 'DavIS,' Ol1e 01 the
expediter mdlcated to the pres:: fund of $600 oot 000 ~ poses With churches 65 per """t are The race will lose ~mething (Continue on Page 4) InstitutIOn to admit Negroes." Irs. Allen. In her story .to the two editors of the Los Ang
Monday that the comprehensive lum payme~ u:: spur o~h:r=- . Baptists." I under the new policy, but as a ~e ... ;spa~ ~. Allen sa~ ~at Tribune, was awarded the first
program designed to start con put of malerlals and anoth"; I I whole i~ is regard~ .~ a dis- URGE PROBE KILLING h::;,:r in n:::ch 0:r ~~~ prize of $500.00 lD the Wendell
moderate cost homes. by ~e end technical re~h by p rivate FROM RIVER servICeS of Ne~ lDth th~~ari NEGRO ARMY Washington, MiUeh 6 _ A re- w~ :~ said O~D :dW:ur_ nalism. Mrs. uDavis WOD the
struetiun of 2,700.000 low and fund .of $250,000 000 to stunulale WOMAJ( 1"AJrEH tmet galll, as reco~tion oJ th.e OF TWO IN COLUMBIA I F All and ) tcll L. Willkie award for N~ jour-
01 next yea r Will mclude groups mto the use of n w con- and as vmdIcab~n of e ra quest that Attorney GeneraJ based fro bo a ard for her general news 0 -
houses f.or colored occupancy as struction materials and methods. A rolored woman who appear- polley adopted lust before ~e STREUGT H 372 3&9 Tom C. lark personally investi- c m a ~. cellence·' and feature writiDc-well
as for whites. ed to be between 60 and 70 years war by Secretary of War Stim- " gate the killing of two Negroes Mrs. All 0 ctaUllS that wJuon Second prizes of S250 each were
. . ' To overcome th labor sb0:t- old. was taken fro", the Ohio son and rontinued by Ius succes- , at Columbia, Tenn., by Tenn""-I she told Taylor, on his first vISit, awarded to P. B. Young, Jr? edi--
While W)att beheves that age. he pro~ the reenllt- river in J eUerson"ille at Walnut sor. Secretary Patterson. -- see Slate highway patrolmen her h usband .... as IIOt at bome, tor of the NorfoUt. Va., Journal
loeal p roblem;' must be met by me~t . and tramUlg of 1.5OO,~ and Springs S ts. Friday, March Whal the race loses are or- Washington, D. C., March &- has been made by a National he left and returned later in the and GUJd and J ohn H. Young.
IocaJ leadership, he said that he additIonal ..... or".e~ by the nud- J. The woman whom the author- ganizations of division sIZe and On January I, 1946, the total Ne- Lawyers Guild committee afternoon and told lIrs. AD nUl, Washington eorrespoadent of
was. aware. 01 the. problem of die of 19017, trJpllDg. the ~bor l itics were not a ble to identify thus theu- 92d and 93d Infantry gro strength of the Army w~ . that he had seen her busband the Pittsburgh Courier_ The
::!~s:ta~e h:':: ~: ::::. f~rces now engaged lD reslden- ..... as 5 tt. 9, gray ha1red, and Di"is~ns of World War 11 will 372,369, it was announced tod~ On May I , 1945, Negro per_ ~ ~at Allen wanted her to Judges for the awards ~ COIII-ha
ronstruction. wore black shoes brown stock- pass mto htStory. In the fu ture by the War Department. This sonnel in the Army numbered ,,"e him, Tay10r, the watcll. posed of a cDmmi~ of DeW$-
ored propl . It is possible that Wyatt may lDgs. a black c~t with fur on the~r largest ~mbat unlts will figure represenu. i 8.81 percent 700.304. of which 4,003 were Allen said. she loId the 01!~ paper publishers h-w by
1n hlS program of m~gency attempt to guaran rolored neck and cuUs; black dress and be mfantry regunents, but these of the total army strength a t Wacs. This represented the peak that she did not !mow al!:ything Mark Ethridge, p ublisber of the
meilSllJU to get started thIS year carpenters and other building scarf. She had a knife and keys will be grouped and mployed that lime. of Negro Army strength during about any .... atch. She said thal Couner Journal and the ~
1.200,000 h~ h recommend- trades workers a proportionate I in her purse. with wrute unIts in romposite Commissioned oUicers. flight the war years. when Taylor made the fourth "Ille Times.
ed to the Pre5ident that Federal I share 01 work by requiring hen- organizations. and warrant ofIicers made up trip to her home, he brought a Th :lwards .... ere JII8de ..
rooperation and aSSltance, where eficiaries of priorities and aI- God reckons our servICe not The new policy is based on a 4,743 of th Negro strength. Of It 15 the function of the white po!Jceman ~th him ~ Saturday during the ~
necessary be given in the de-locations to ,uaran~ rolored I by our a bility but by our will- socio-military study in which the total 216,897 were &erVing Church to create th creators of that wheti she a..- told him egro Press procram- ....
velopment .of horne sites. - (Coctinued on pace 4) m,ness. the d eficiencies and virtues of overseas. a new civilization, her busband was DOt bome, th I L. S~y, Louisville, ~
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